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Published 7:56 pm, Thursday, March 7, 2013

Wealth regained: Surging stock prices and steady home-price increases have allowed Americans to finally regain the $16 trillion in wealth they lost to the Great Recession. The recovered wealth, most of it from higher stock prices, has been flowing mainly to richer Americans.

Facebook redo: Facebook has redesigned its social network to address complaints that the News Feed on its website has turned into a jumble of monotonous musings and random photos. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hopes to turn the News Feed into something more like a newspaper tailored to the particular interests of each user.

'Fixer Upper' Star Joanna Gaines Says She Was Bullied As A ChildBuzz 60

Bigelow Aerospace Is Looking To Launch Its Own Inflatable Space StationBuzz 60

Robots Are Getting Smarter, Perhaps Too SmartFortune

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GAP President and CEO Jeff Kirwan Is LeavingFortune

Uber CEO Think Flying Taxis Will Debut in 5-10 YearsWibbitz

Jobless benefits: The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell 7,000 to a seasonally adjusted 340,000 last week, driving down the four-week average to its lowest level in five years. The drop is a positive sign ahead of today's report on February job growth.

Icahn-Dell:Carl Icahn wants Dell Inc. to remain a public company and proposed rewarding shareholders with a large dividend payment instead of going private in a $24.4 billion buyout.

Eminent domain: TransCanada and the Texas Land Partners presented their cases to the judges of the 9th Court of Appeals in a dispute over the condemnation of Southeast Texas farmland for the Keystone XL pipeline. The ruling will be made at a later date.

Stronger banks: The nation's largest banks are better prepared to withstand a severe U.S. recession and a global downturn than at any time since the 2008 financial crisis, the Fed said.